Around the SUNY Oswego campus
April 28, 2021
![The Office of Sustainability hosted a series of Earth Week cleanups, including this April 22 pickup along the shores of Lake Ontario](https://acquia-prod.oswego.edu/photo-gallery/sites/acquia-prod.oswego.edu.photo-gallery/files/20210422_campuscleanup_sarahsmelko_3920.jpg)
The college celebrated Earth Month in April with a week of daily campus cleanups, a seed sharing event, two-day thrift sale, an Arbor Day webinar and other events. The Office of Sustainability, which spearheaded most of the events, hosted campus cleanups during Earth Week from April 19 to 23. Pictured April 22 are students cleaning up the shores of Lake Ontario. (Photo by Sarah Smelko/Office of Sustainability)
![Sustainability Office interns and volunteers collected litter from various zones around campus, starting on April 19 during Earth Week. Several litter collection events were held on campus throughout the week in an effort to improve the environment as well as measure the impact.](https://acquia-prod.oswego.edu/photo-gallery/sites/acquia-prod.oswego.edu.photo-gallery/files/20210419_campuscleanup_sarahsmelko_3622.jpg)
Sustainability Office interns and volunteers collected litter from various zones around campus, starting on April 19 during Earth Week. Several litter collection events were held on campus throughout the week in an effort to improve the environment as well as measure the impact. From left, student participants in the first cleanup included, from left, Jon Mills, Sarah Smelko and Aleeyah Bourcy. (Photo courtesy of the Office of Sustainability)
![Sustainability students and volunteers are pictured April 22 with some of the litter they collected along the Lake Ontario shore during Earth Week.](https://acquia-prod.oswego.edu/photo-gallery/sites/acquia-prod.oswego.edu.photo-gallery/files/20210422_campuscleanup_sarahsmelko_3927b.jpg)
Sustainability students and volunteers are pictured April 22 with some of the litter they collected along the Lake Ontario shore during Earth Week. (Photo by Sarah Smelko/Office of Sustainability)
![Admitted Students are welcomed into the Laker family with events such as on-campus, in-person walking tours with their families hosted by the Admissions Office. Pictured leading a tour April 21 is Kaitlin Flint, a sophomore childhood education with English concentrate major.](https://acquia-prod.oswego.edu/photo-gallery/sites/acquia-prod.oswego.edu.photo-gallery/files/20210421_admissionstour_0006.jpg)
Admitted Students are welcomed into the Laker family with events such as on-campus, in-person walking tours with their families hosted by the Admissions Office. Pictured leading a tour April 21 is Kaitlin Flint, a sophomore childhood education major with an English concentration.
![Admitted students had opportunities to tour campus in April. Pausing for a group photo April 21 outside the Shineman Center are two groups led by Admissions student tour guide Romeo Yotat (center), a junior broadcasting and mass communication major.](https://acquia-prod.oswego.edu/photo-gallery/sites/acquia-prod.oswego.edu.photo-gallery/files/20210421_admissionstour_0012.jpg)
Admitted students had opportunities to tour campus in April. Pausing for a group photo April 21 outside the Shineman Center are two groups led by Admissions student tour guide Romeo Yotat (center), a junior broadcasting and mass communication major.
![SUNY Oswego computer science faculty member Bastian Tenbergen partnered with 1989 alumnus and current IBM senior manager Paul Austin for hands-on project-based work within the school’s “Software Design” class. For software engineering students, the experience provides valuable experience within the professional realm of their prospective careers.](https://acquia-prod.oswego.edu/photo-gallery/sites/acquia-prod.oswego.edu.photo-gallery/files/20210421_tenbergen_class_0002_1.jpg)
SUNY Oswego computer science faculty member Bastian Tenbergen partnered with 1989 alumnus and current IBM senior manager Paul Austin for hands-on project-based work within the school’s “Software Design” class. For software engineering students, the experience provides valuable experience within the professional realm of their prospective careers.
![After a year that meant adapting news coverage to the realities of the pandemic, The Oswegonian is among the student organizations with a changing of the guard as the end of the semester nears. Incoming editor Brandon Ladd (left) receives a welcome from the outgoing editor, graduating senior Benjamin Grieco, who will continue his journalism career with local daily The Palladium-Times.](https://acquia-prod.oswego.edu/photo-gallery/sites/acquia-prod.oswego.edu.photo-gallery/files/20210422_oswegonian_editors_0010.jpg)
After a year that meant adapting news coverage to the realities of the pandemic, The Oswegonian is among the student organizations with a changing of the guard as the end of the semester nears. Incoming editor Brandon Ladd (left) receives a welcome from the outgoing editor, graduating senior Benjamin Grieco, who will continue his journalism career with local daily newspaper The Palladium-Times.
![With responsibilities that included becoming the main way Laker sports fans could see games due to restrictions on live spectators, WTOP-10 TV recently passed its leadership baton from outgoing general manager and graduating senior Matt Green (left) to incoming GM Caroline Evans.](https://acquia-prod.oswego.edu/photo-gallery/sites/acquia-prod.oswego.edu.photo-gallery/files/20210426_wtop_gm_0002.jpg)
With responsibilities that included becoming the main way Laker sports fans could see games due to restrictions on live spectators, WTOP-10 TV recently passed its leadership baton from outgoing general manager and graduating senior Matt Green (left) to incoming GM Caroline Evans.
![The approaching end of the semester means the passing of the mantle (or sweater) for a variety of organizations, including student-run WNYO FM 88.9 radio, which returned to in-studio shows for the campus and community. Incoming general manager Abigail Connolly (left) receives a welcome from Jenn Robilotto, the outgoing GM and a graduating senior.](https://acquia-prod.oswego.edu/photo-gallery/sites/acquia-prod.oswego.edu.photo-gallery/files/20210422_wnyo_gm_0004.jpg)
The approaching end of the semester means the passing of the mantle (or sweater) for a variety of organizations, including student-run WNYO FM 88.9 radio, which returned to in-studio shows for the campus and community. Incoming general manager Abigail Connolly (left) receives a welcome from Jenn Robilotto, the outgoing GM and a graduating senior.
![Oswego theater students designed and created a stage performance featuring light, motion, sound and music in a showcase presented during Quest. "Going Mad in Wonderland" in Waterman Theatre is a student-designed collaboration of theatre students with technology department students, who helped with the construction of scenic elements, and video produced by students at WTOP-10 TV productions.](https://acquia-prod.oswego.edu/photo-gallery/sites/acquia-prod.oswego.edu.photo-gallery/files/20210414_going_mad_in_wonderland_screenshot_00002h.jpg)
Oswego theater students designed and created a stage performance featuring light, motion, sound and music in a showcase presented during Quest. "Going Mad in Wonderland" in Waterman Theatre is a student-designed collaboration of theatre students with technology department students, who helped with the construction of scenic elements, and video produced by students at WTOP-10 TV productions.
![The Office of Sustainability hosted a small-scale thrift sale during Earth Month on Monday and Tuesday to give back to the campus community in the form of low-cost thrift clothing and facts on the benefits of partaking in slow fashion](https://acquia-prod.oswego.edu/photo-gallery/sites/acquia-prod.oswego.edu.photo-gallery/files/20210426_sustainability_thriftsale_0001.jpg)
The Office of Sustainability hosted a small-scale thrift sale during Earth Month on Monday and Tuesday to give back to the campus community in the form of low-cost thrift clothing and facts on the benefits of partaking in slow fashion. From left are Kate Spector, the campus sustainability coordinator, with interns Lauren Fitzgerald, Brendan Lentini, Deiarra Canty and David Victome.
![SUNY Oswego's visiting artist series talk April 16 featured Kenseth Armstead, a Brooklyn-based multimedia installation artist who talked about his work and its relationships surrounding African-American history.](https://acquia-prod.oswego.edu/photo-gallery/sites/acquia-prod.oswego.edu.photo-gallery/files/20210415_kenseth_armstead_visitingartist_71054.jpg)
SUNY Oswego's visiting artist series talk April 16 featured Kenseth Armstead, a Brooklyn-based multimedia installation artist who talked about his work and its relationships surrounding African-American history. His works have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Berlin VideoFest and the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
![After some false starts and measurable snows, spring is in the process of finally springing, as reflected in the trees blooming near Marano Campus Center.](https://acquia-prod.oswego.edu/photo-gallery/sites/acquia-prod.oswego.edu.photo-gallery/files/20210426_sunyoswegocampus_0035.jpg)
After some false starts and measurable snows, spring is in the process of finally springing, as reflected in the trees blooming near Marano Campus Center.
![Trees bloom outside Marano Campus Center in late April, a familiar sight in time for the final weeks of classes and May Commencement ceremonies.](https://acquia-prod.oswego.edu/photo-gallery/sites/acquia-prod.oswego.edu.photo-gallery/files/20210426_sunyoswegocampus_0039.jpg)
Trees bloom outside Marano Campus Center in late April, a familiar sight in time for the final weeks of classes and May Commencement ceremonies.